Circuit to trigger a camera using a mobile phone, PDA, or MP3 player

Este artículo también está disponible en Español: Circuito para controlar la cámara desde un movil, PDA, o MP3.

On night photography, long exposures are the norm: sometimes several seconds, and sometimes several minutes; I also tend to employ HDR techniques, and that means that I often end making series of nine or even more photos all together. Spending half an hour (sometimes more) with the remote trigger on your hand can be quite boring, so I toyed with the idea of making this process authomatic... and I found a way to control the camera from a mobile phone, a PDA, or even an MP3 player.

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HDR night panorama from Barcelona

Este artículo también está disponible en Español: Panorámica noctura de Barcelona, en HDR.

Probably, this is the most complex photo that I have made to date, both because the number of exposures required, and because the processing required: to create the panorama which can be seen on the header of this blog, I had to take 27 different photographs, and then process them with a computer during several hours; however, I think the final result well deserves the effort.

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